Winston Churchill Quotes

My philosophy is different than most of the people up here. I think if you do the right thing and you lose, you still did the right thing. I think if you do less than the right thing and win, it’s morally reprehensible.

Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is right as to what must be done. It is not necessary that you should keep your property, or even your life, but it is necessary that you should hold fast your integrity.

Do what you believe to be right, and ever hold it for a maxim, that if the skies fall through your doing right, honest men will survive the ruin.

The golden rule is to act fearlessly upon what one believes to be right.

Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless; standing fast even when fear made you weak. Keeping your word.

Sometimes being a leader isn’t about winning. Sometimes it’s about doing what’s right, instead of what’s powerful.

Courage is the ability to do the right thing, all the time, no matter how painful or uncomfortable it might be.

He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

Life tests our willingness, in ways large and small, to tell the truth.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.

The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Integrity means having the courage to do what is right, and what is aligned with your values, no matter the situation.

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in our doing so, is to push the next generation in the relative, dialectical millstream that surrounds us.

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.

Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.

The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

My job is to do what's right. And that's what I'm going to try and do.

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.